Microprocessors belonging to the PowerPC/Power ISA architecture family have been used in numerous applications. Apple Computer was the dominant player...
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PowerPC 970, PowerPC 970FX, and PowerPC 970MP are 64-bit PowerPC CPUs from IBM introduced in 2002. Apple branded the 970 as PowerPC G5 for its Power Mac...
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The PowerPC 600 family was the first family of PowerPC processors built. They were designed at the Somerset facility in Austin, Texas, jointly funded and...
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Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. PowerPC, as an evolving instruction set, has been named Power ISA since 2006, while the old name lives on...
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Rosetta (software) (category PowerPC emulators)
Tiger as part of the Mac transition from PowerPC processors to Intel processors, allowing PowerPC applications to run on Intel-based Macs. Support for...
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The PowerPC 400 family is a line of 32-bit embedded RISC processor cores based on the PowerPC or Power ISA instruction set architectures. The cores are...
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PowerPC G4 is a designation formerly used by Apple to describe a fourth generation of 32-bit PowerPC microprocessors. Apple has applied this name to various...
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32-bit (but not 64-bit) PowerPC applications were supported on Intel processors with Rosetta. 4.↑ 64-bit Intel applications are supported on Apple silicon...
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bus interface for PowerPC CPU. PowerPro (CA91L750) – Memory controller for PowerPC CPU. PowerPC applications Power ISA List of PowerPC-based game consoles...
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the last PowerPC-based game console to remain in production, was discontinued in 2017.[citation needed] PowerPC applications List of PowerPC processors...
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MacOS (section PowerPC–Intel transition)
32-bit (but not 64-bit) PowerPC applications were supported on Intel processors with Rosetta. 4.↑ 64-bit Intel applications are supported on Apple silicon...
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SC3900 DSPs for high end telecom applications such as 4G/LTE macrocells running at 1.6 and 1.8 GHz. QorIQ PowerPC e5500 powerpc-notebook.org homepage — The...
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applications. After two years of development, the resulting PowerPC ISA was introduced in 1993. A modified version of the RSC architecture, PowerPC added...
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booting on PowerPC as of Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard in August 2009, three years after the transition was complete. Support for PowerPC applications via Rosetta...
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The PowerPC 7xx is a family of third generation 32-bit PowerPC microprocessors designed and manufactured by IBM and Motorola (spun off as Freescale Semiconductor...
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integrated circuit (ASIC) offerings.[citation needed] Many high volume applications embed PowerPC cores. In 1974, IBM started a project with a design objective...
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The PowerPC e200 is a family of 32-bit Power ISA microprocessor cores developed by Freescale for primary use in automotive and industrial control systems...
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The PowerPC e5500 is a 64-bit Power ISA-based microprocessor core from Freescale Semiconductor. The core implements most of the core of the Power ISA...
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The PowerPC e500 is a 32-bit microprocessor core from Freescale Semiconductor. The core is compatible with the older PowerPC Book E specification as well...
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Free and open source software portal PearPC is a PowerPC platform emulator capable of running many PowerPC operating systems, including pre-Intel versions...
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with PowerPC RISC processors co-developed with IBM and Motorola (the AIM alliance). The transition began in March 1994 with the launch of the Power Macintosh...
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PowerQUICC is the name for several PowerPC- and Power ISA-based microcontrollers from Freescale Semiconductor. They are built around one or more PowerPC...
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For applications running under this new PowerPC ABox kernel 68k code runs as subroutines inside PowerPC tasks. For 68k or PowerPC applications it's fully...
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Ppc64 (category PowerPC microprocessors)
communities to refer to the target architecture for applications optimized for 64-bit big-endian PowerPC and Power ISA processors. ppc64le is a pure little-endian...
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IBM AS/400 (redirect from IBM Application System/400)
a series of 64-bit PowerPC-derived CPUs, which later were developed into the IBM RS64 family. Due to the use of TIMI, applications for the original CISC-based...
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard (section Power management)
graphics cards in their applications. It was also the first Mac OS release since System 7.1.1 to not support Macs using PowerPC processors, as Apple dropped...
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IBM RS64 (redirect from PowerPC AS)
intensive commercial applications that were being created for AS/400s. IBM president Jack Kuehler wanted the AS/400 team to use PowerPC, but they resisted...
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Workplace OS (redirect from OS/2 Warp Connect (PowerPC Edition))
base onto a new wave of standard reference PowerPC-based systems, such as the PC Power Series and the Power Macintosh. Creating a unique but open and industry-standard...
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and the now-defunct Power.org industry group. Power ISA is an evolution of the PowerPC ISA, created by the mergers of the core PowerPC ISA and the optional...
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Macintosh Toolbox (section On PowerPC systems)
Manager, which was used to load and dynamically link native PowerPC programs. The PowerPC system call facility, analogous to the A-trap mechanism, was...
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